U.S. Blamed for Achille Lauro Mastermind's Death

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040310/wl_nm/iraq_mideast_abbas_dc

Followers of Mohammed Abbas, the Palestinian mastermind of the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking in 1985, blamed the United States and Israel on Wednesday for his death in U.S. custody in Iraq (news - web sites).

Captured by American forces in Iraq nearly a year ago, the U.S. military in Baghdad confirmed the death of Abbas, 56. One U.S. official said the burly former guerrilla died of a heart attack Tuesday.

"We hold the Americans responsible for his death, for his assassination," said Omar Shebli, number two to Abbas in the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF).

"They put him to die slowly in a prison cell, deprived of his freedom. His detention was illegal and his conditions in jail were bad," Shebli told Reuters in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites).


He also accused Israel's Mossad intelligence agency of helping U.S. forces "torture" Abbas, saying that Abbas had sent word to supporters that: "Mossad officers, Jewish officers, participated in the interrogation."


Abbas, also known as "Abu Abbas," planned the hijacking of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro in October 1985 during which a wheel-chair bound American Jew, 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer, was killed and thrown into the sea.

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it appears the terrorist PFLP is OUTRAGED at the treatment of this
murdering bastard. bummer.

you cant make this stuff up.

watch...next stop..ICJ to lodge a formal complaint.